How to collect logs for the Greenplum DCA Product

Post date: Oct 09, 2012 5:41:25 PM

The gpdetective utility collects information from a running Greenplum Database system and creates a bzip2-compressed tar output file. This output file can then be sent to Greenplum Customer Support to help with the diagnosis of Greenplum Database errors or system failures.

The gpdetective utility runs the following diagnostic tests: 

 

Example: gpdetective --start_date=N [ Collect the diagnostic information for the past N day of activity in a Greenplum Database system:]